Franz Kafka, Hugo Bergmann, Philipp Frank, Albert Einstein, and Christian von Ehrenfels. Kowalewski died in 1950 in Gräfelfing. Nazi party membership Kowalewski was a member of the Nazi party, who said about Adolf Hitler that "he has been sent to us by Providence." This helped him secure his position as Rector at the Technical University of Dresden. Notes External links 19th-century German mathematicians 1950 deaths 1876 births 20th-century German mathematicians